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Would have to be big enough demand to set up production in USA.

That is the weirdest thing. I can understand bottom of the barrel economy brand going “The initial cash is small, but we will nickle and dime you on the service fees and show ads. What can you do, afford a different car? Don’t think so.”

Premium brand like BMW? What you smoking there in Bavary?

Your customers can afford to choose another car. Your price is high enough people expect smooth nice experience. Not annoying ads or clear pointless cash grabs like charging for already installed seat heaters. Sell the trim package or not.

What people will accept is “okay the maintenance and service at garage costs, if one wants to maintain this in nice condition”. Those suspension bushings, dampers, springs, tires and so on still need the normal amount of premium garage priced maintenance.

yeah, well usually district heating is a thing in places where heating is major energy consumer. Russia, Nordic countries, Canada and so on.

More temperate places don’t have district heating, since the heating need isn’t intense enough to warrant it.

The network is expensive to build, but the vast economies of scale make the actual on going heating more efficient and cheaper. Whatever the heating source might be. Be it fuel burning boiler or industrial scale heat pumps.

well mostly they say they don’t negotiate. In reality more often than not, they actually do negotiate in the end. Then they claim it was one time exception (and then do it again next time also).

ehhhh food hygiene?

However given a century of military history, anyone signing up for US military service ought to expect high probability of dying in a very stupid war far away from home.

“Our client dictator is getting little too uppity” or one persons ego, stupid both.

Specially in Nordics. Social corporate responsibility is a very long tradition in Nordics, specially with due to stuff like co-operative customer, producer or worker owned companies, state enterprises and so on.

Including leadership teams behavior. Companies do get flack for what kind of persons they hire as leadership, since it is (pretty reasonably) assumed their mindset and worldview affects their conduct while leading the company.

Plus not only is he leader, he is owner so again money to company’s pocket is in the end money to his pocket.

One can’t claim “we are responsible company, while having opposite kind of CEO/leader”. It is his private matter he has these opinions, what isn’t private is him being company leader. Company doesn’t want his private opinions affecting the company, get rid of him as leader.

It would be one thing, if he was “lineworker” employee. Then person can have private opinions don’t affect company. However he isn’t mere salary employee in the depths of server hall lifting and plugging in servers to racks and cleaning cooling equipment clean. He is company leadership.

Yeah, Volvo Group hasn’t owned Volvo Cars since 1999. They decided heavy equipment and other more specialty stuff was better market, than the passenger cars.

Volvo Group (AB Volvo) owns:
Volvo, Mack & Renault Trucks; Volvo Bus; Volvo Construction Equipment; Volvo Penta (marine and industrial engines)

Geely owns:
Volvo Cars (Volvo Personvagnar AB), Polestar

well streamline the authorising. I would assume still the country (or countries) in which the weapon use takes place has the final authority. Since it still isn’t full on war. Some officer in command center from say Estonian airforce has to say “You have our national permission to release the live weapon into Estonian airspace”.

Ain’t gonna be any fighter pilot making that call unless it is literal self defence situation for the jet itself.

Well point 1is classic salesman ship. “Investors, get in on the ground floor, this thing is going to the moon”.

Also in labour relations “Unions, workers accept this worse deal for you or swear on my grandma’s grave we replace you with soon to be super powerful AI”.

There is no way of knowing will or will not LLMs radically improve and lead to radical change. Since we have no way of knowing does someone say resolve the hallucinating and being confidently wrong issues. Not atleast with current probability models, since that random number throw (that is necessary for the whole thing to work) has that chance to land bad. There is no way without fundamentally different base model to give hard orders like “never do that”. There is always the chance 1% and 0,1% throws happen.

Self emergent clock is still a clock in my books? Just a rather fundamental clock. Clock that makes the time it is measuring? Then again what else is say even an atomic clock. temporal spacing emerging from the changes of state of a physical phenomenon. Solar clock ain’t measuring time either. It measures orbital position of Earth and Sun. We then assign these numbers to these changes of patterns. Then we note, oh hey these make up useful repeating patterns.

I’m sure in some goes way over my head way, this is different. However… if the end result (even without directly measuring time) is being able to tell change in time/temporal ordering etc., it is a clock. By certain (at minimum my own definition) of clock. Nice thing about definitions. One can even make ones own.

By some definition, anything that allows measuring time is a clock. It might be a weird clock, but clock still.

I went immediately “they started making opensource print heads… since that is huge effort”… Oh it is just a carrier assembly for HP inkcartridges. Sure hack refillable ones, but still the main printing part is from big corporate. Waiting for the moment of “HP implemented backward DRM on their cartridge. HP cartridge only works, if it hears correct attestation from the printer.”

This all is based on them hacking a corporate part and that is newer sustainable open hardware route.

Using a print head a maker sells as just “We make printheads, what you do with it after is your business. We exactly sell these as industrial parts from people to build printer around (or whatever other device you have use for ink depositing thingie in)” fine. That is normal.

But “hey we made open inkjet printer”. “So you figured the vast tasks of designing and manufacturing inkjet print heads?” “No” “You found a suitable standard industrial part to build around, less amazing, but still okay?” “No” “So what did you figure out or provide to table?” “We hacked HPs part”. Soooo everyone using this is still paying HP tax and who knows HP might shut this whole thing down one way or another.

edit: Not to mention it is not like it is some impossible task to get inkjet printheads, like all legit and so on. One web search later leads for example to KonicaMinolta industrials website for their catalog of “Here we sell just the Inkjet heads, incase you want to make a printer. Here is the spec sheet how to run it.”

4 way valve is 4 way exactly so the compressor can essentially switch sides on the cycle. It also shifts around where the expansion valve is located in cycle. thus switching the tasks of the inside and outside radiators/heatexchangers.

AC is a heatpump. pumping heat from inside to outside. “Heatpump” is also a heatpump. pumping from outside in. The only difference is fluid flow direction.

Hence only thing needed to turn one to other is 4 way valve changing the flow direction/order of refrigerant.

These days atleast in Europe, good luck finding “heat pump”, that doesn’t have 4 way selector valve. Early on there was single direction heat pumps and cooling was extra feature only on upmarket models. These days it is “oh right it also has cooling, handy”. The valve is not that expensive, so it is pretty standard by now.

At cost of causing decades long split between USA and allies. There is no take backsies on openly threatening to invade and annex an ally. Not even for the next POTUS and POTUS after that.

Mainly the guestion in Europe has been/is Where is the rest of the USA. Rest of the USA didn’t stop this guy, so all of USA is not to be trusted. Either due to not caring or due to not being able to curtail the POTUS. Doesn’t really matter which the reason is, end result is the same. USA is a 4 year electoral absolute monarchy and such governance can’t be trusted for long term alliance. Since it resets potentially every 4 years.

Just get an e-bike then. and if one has problems with ones balance, ones legs or ones hands. Some people can’t operate a two wheeler. Is it a niche vehicle? Yes. However even niche vehicles have their place.

You answered it yourself. Good enough is good enough and quantity has quality of it’s own. Specially when it comes to artillery munitions. Most likely USA wasn’t willing to hand over the technical package for PrSM. Too new and valuable (classified etc.).

Germany didn’t want just access to the munition on terms and timelines USA sets, they wanted independent capability to make them. See recent cases of “ohhh whooopsie we shot lot of our missiles. Remember that delivery date we promised you. Well that is delayed. Need to stock up national stockpiles first.”

Good enough missiles available on schedule one controls are better than amazing missiles that don’t arrive on time to be useful.

Denmark cares… what with to the point of 500+ extra ordinarily deployed anti invasion troops having been deployed since January. A battalion sent, not to defend from Russia, but from USA.

The airborne unit got alert status. Europe didn’t know is it flying to minnesota or Greenland. Runway cratering charges and blocking trucks were driven to runway side. Blood plasma and non-training amounts of hard war munitions.

All of USA will be for decades to come be held responsible for not curtailing POTUS. Doesn’t matter Democrat, Republican or Independent. First response after first threat was not immediate impeachment, that makes nearly all of USA population culpable. Minus the small group of people who actually dropped what was going on in their life and kept actual on going protest over this. Not just one weekend hand washing march participation. Actual on going “I’m making serious personal sacrifices over this” levels of action and protest.

Well issue is Denmark can’t ignore it, nor can it’s allies. Though maybe Americans can take a “sooo what about Epstein” stance. Atleast followed with strict enough protesting. Like ehhh the kind that would get POTUS deposed. both for Epstein and for threatening to invade and annex sovereign nation.

Then again when does it get bad enough, Epstein is the distraction from USA’s threat to invade occupy and annex another sovereign nation.

For peoples information Denmark maintains currently a battallion of anti-invasion troops on Greenland. That is how much no sovereign nation can take threats of “we gonna invade and occupy” lightly. Atleast given what force posture of USA and Greenland are.